Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.

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character of Hornblower

...a “biography” of this fictional hero,
The Life and Times of Horatio Hornblower (1970). The character was perhaps most famously played by Gregory Peck in the film
Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951). Beginning with
Horatio Hornblower: The Duel (1998), Welsh actor Ioan Gruffudd played Hornblower in a series of made-for-television...

discussed in biography

...a conventional western strengthened by some good location photography, with Kirk Douglas as a U.S. marshal escorting a prisoner to trial. Walsh had one of his biggest hits with
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951), a well-mounted version of the C.S. Forester novels, which starred Gregory Peck as the British naval commander who conquers all during the Napoleonic...